Docudrama on European Television

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann is Lecturer in Film and German Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Formerly a teaching assistant at Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLFF and post-doctoral research assistant at Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany, he is author of several books and articles on film, media and memory. Derek Paget is the author of True Stories?: Documentary drama on Radio, Screen and Stage (1990) and No Other Way To Tell It: Docudrama on Film and Television (2nd edition, 2011). He is a member of Studies of Theatre and Performance’s Editorial Board and an Associate Editor of Studies in Documentary Film.

• Introduction: A New Europe, the Post-Documentary Turn and Docudrama. Derek Paget.- 1. German Docudrama: Aligning the Fragments and Accessing the Past. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann.- 2. Polish Docudrama: Finding a Balance between Difficult and Easy Pleasures. Wieslaw Godzic.- 3. Italian Docudrama: From the Experimental Moment to Biography as Text of Identity. Milly Buonanno.- 4. French Docudrama: 'Patrimony Television' and 'Embedded Biopic'. Georges Fournier.- 5. Spanish Docudrama: Of Heroes and Celebrities. Victoria Pastor-Gonzalez.- 6. Swedish Docudrama: In the Borderlands of Fact and Fiction. Asa Bergstrom.- 7. British Docudrama: New Directions in Reflexivity. David Rolinson.- Conclusion: 'Unity in Diversity'? Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann.- Filmography.- Bibliography.